The Steel Guitar Forum

Pete - thanks for calling this album to our attention - hadn't seen it, have just put myself on the waiting list for the vinyl. Who else could write such a great line as 'lost the light, moving thru the night, running from the grand ennui' and punctuate it with the great Red!

Beautiful guitar at bargain price, Jon is fortunate buyer. Enjoy it, still love my ‘84 SKH 35 years after bringing her home.

I've used an original Stoboflip for years and have been happy, although I rarely get the display to totally stabilize and the grey color of the display is not the easiest to see (newer ones are much better). Very happy w/ Strobosoft. I use it with iPad mini in a Focusrite I-track dock w/OE9/SC6 pres...

The high point of the nearly 40 years I've sat behind a PSG remains the 3+ years I spent across the guitar from Buddy at Oxon Hill Music and later at Whitt's Harley dealership down the road. Given the great players he trained I'm sure I ranked as a frustrating challenge for him, but he never lost pa...

Let's see, if these last Franklin two weeks I'll probably get three months out of them!

Damir - I'm helping a newbie look for his first steel. He's a bit concerned about weight, do you have weight in/out of case for the Sierra?

Mike - not in the market for a new guitar (have an '84 SKH LeGrande that I love along with a few Carters) but this is beauty and seeing the way your Dad kept it up and kept all the documentation really impressed me. Everyone should be as attentive to detail with their instruments as he was. I see yo...

Another happy recipient of "heartaches by the number" , Thank you John! Your tab great - very clean and easy on the eyes.

A long dormant thread, but since I was searching info about Studio Pro (need to replace speaker I blew out at high volume/high distortion w/tele) thought I throw in 2 cents in case anyone is looking at one of these. I've had this one since early 80s. Fine practice amp for electric and steel. I used ...

Great stories! My start was 6 string and then inheriting a nice Gibson mandolin from my grandfather in 1975. Took it to local music store and asked what I could do with it, reply was either learn it or put it in safe deposit box. So, started learning bluegrass (which I never liked) - this led me to ...

I've just finished up a 6 week online course learning a bit of software called JackTrip that lets 2 or more people jam/record online. The software is designed to lower internet latency to tolerable (>30ms) delays that let people play together without a major sense of being out of time with each othe...

Ken - Kudos to you for taking advantage of this situation to help a student get his/her hands on a really great machine and not just turning this around for a fast personal profit. What you've done and the Mickey Adams "giveaways" remind me what a good community this is!

Tony - must be something about magnetic tape people - this is still my best mic! Had it at least 30 years.[/img]

Tony - nice studio, I especially like seeing the Teac. Cut teeth in AM radio in Durham early 70s, tape carts and mono 1" Ampex machines. In 80s had 2 Teac's (still in basement) - with a good grease pencil mark and very sharp click at start could do 8 tracks simul-synch. Question is, is the Teac...

I had good luck w/naptha/lighter fluid method. Just be sure not to get it on finish. You can do this in two steps, one applying between fingers from the top side and work pedals/levers, and a second step putting guitar on blocks upside down and coming from the bottom side while working pedals/levers...

David - PM sent

Hey Will, what's this about an album?

Worth weight in gold - at current gold price Peavey 500 would be about $1.3 million, would certainly set a record for price of steel guitar amp!

The value of a Session 500 is in inverse proportion to the age of the player!

Ernie - I get by with an Evans JE-150. At home I sometimes plug it into what remains of my my Session 500, just the BW.

The value of a Session 500 is in inverse proportion to the age of the player!

Ernie - I get by with an Evans JE-150. At home I sometimes plug it into what remains of my my Session 500, just the BW.

Douglas - thanks much for posting. I have been scouring two houses for a year for my copy of Neil Flanz' chord book to no avail and this will get me back on track with some of the chords I used to know but have long since forgotten. And thanks to Trap for his work. Of course this means that tomorrow...

I'd be curious if this is enough to drive a 15"bw - I have Session 500 case w/bw, amp itself is ancient history. I've driven it off my Evans JE150 at home just fine, but can't carry both of them around. The name and the price are right, will be curious what people think when anyone lays hands o...

Thanks for reviving the thread, I hadn't seen it before and it is fascinating to read folks stories. For me 2 years in radio news where I learned I was not Walter Cronkite and got fired, but learned good recording technique. 26 years after that with a trade group representing grain businessin Washin...

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